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    Default Why does a single night in an american hospital cost $2,500?

    https://www.beckershospitalreview.co...50-states.html

    That is just for the hospital bed - does not include doctor fees. You go to an ordinary motel and for $100 a night you get a private room with TV and cable and microwave. At a hospital you get none of that and yet they charge you 25 times as much!!!

    As long as health insurance exists no one has any real incentive to demand lower prices and so they keep rising. Health insurance should be banned.
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    Shareholders need a positive income stream. Sick people are vulnerable. People will go into debt to survive. Prices should probably go up, did you know we have the nicest Hospitals in the World?

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    Force health insurance to compete through single payer

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    I think 'Single-Payer' would mean ONE 'Not-For-Profit' Insurance Company that would insure everyone at a similar cost sharing price.
    It would eliminate all the Shareholders and their Quarterly profits made on the Sick People.

    Who would want that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimmymccready View Post
    Force health insurance to compete through single payer
    Single payer? That's a euphemism for medicare for all which is a euphemism for govt-run health care. That will just make things worse. Under single payer there is no competition at all. THINK
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    He's right, jimmy. One monopolistic Insurance Company. Covers everybody at an affordable price. From Maine to Hawaii. No tricks, no gimmicks, just affordable insurance for medical care.

    It's goal is NOT to make a Profit, just provide medical insurance.

    Why do you hate Shareholders?

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    When it comes to being a anti President Obama trolling baboon, the ignoramus failed to include the part that mainly healthcare insurance such as private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare and other methods of coverage such as a sliding scale that are currently available, and to which based on Medicare and Medicaid, the patient is covered at 80% of the cost of provider care and with secondary coverage, that covers the extra 20%. What these dumbass Obama haters need to understand as they continue to keep their heads up Putin's puppet Trump stinking hide and his antigovernment conspiring GOPer's hides is that it is tRump and his Russian GOPer mob are attempting to destroy affordable healthcare coverage in America and in particular, and in order to feed their greedy gullets on the taxpayer dime like the vultures they are.

    It’s not just Medicare: Trump budget eyes Social Security cuts, too
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    Also turn your Obama hater antenna on the following facts aside from your hater and troller fiction:

    Americans Say Barack Obama Was Best President of Their Lifetimes

    A plurality of Americans named Barack Obama the best president of their lifetimes.
    In a survey by the Pew Research Center, 44% named Obama the best or second-best president of their lifetimes, followed by 33% who named Bill Clinton and 32% who named Ronald Reagan.
    Respondents mentioned Donald Trump only 19% of the time, putting him in fourth place. Notably, that was roughly equivalent to Obama’s figure at a similar point in his presidency — in a similar survey in 2011, Obama was listed as the first or second choice by 20% of Americans.
    In the survey, conducted from June 5 to 12, 2,002 adults were asked in an open-ended question, “Which president has done the best job during your lifetime?” They were asked to name both their first and second choices.
    Both presidents Bush fell lower on the list. George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush were named the best or second-best by 14% and 10% of Americans, respectively.
    Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman and Franklin Roosevelt are named by less than 5% of respondents."

    https://time.com/5336305/barack-obam...sident-survey/

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    Additionally and to which I am sure many tRump's brainwashed cult followers are not that hateful against America at republicans just loving their Obamacare:

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    https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/...alth-benefits/
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    What is wrong with people turning over their Homes and Life Savings for Medical Care? We should probably eliminate Medicare and let the Elderly spend themselves into Poverty and then Die. Why should their children inherit anything? What about the Doctors and Lawyers?

    The Elderly don't want Medicare, they want Private Insurance that competes for their Dollars. 70 and 80 year olds could band together and get a Good Deal on Medical Insurance.

    Who you going to believe, the Shareholding Class or a bunch of Left Wing Loons?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Text Drivers are Killers View Post
    Single payer? That's a euphemism for medicare for all which is a euphemism for govt-run health care. That will just make things worse. Under single payer there is no competition at all. THINK
    No, it is not an euphemism, no, it is not government health care, and, yes, it will make matters better because the health care industry will have to compete to provide financing.

    You need to understand you are woefully ignorant in these matters, TDA

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    Price gouging plain and simple. Tylenol need to cost $40 a pill so all the doctors plus top heavy admin and insurance excs can make their porsche payments.
    We need to err on the side of surgery beause the reimbursement rates are so high they can make the yacht slip fees and buy the min
    monthly food and bev at the club. They don't hand knot antique Persian rugs at Walmart ya know.
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    Obamacare has bankrupt the mere thought of free health care,
    which is exactly what single payer is.

    what sets this country apart from the rest of the world is capitalism, competition drives down costs, simple as that.

    why in the hell would anyone believe this government could run health care, Obama put his disaster on the people knowing full well it would collapse, after he left

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    Quote Originally Posted by Text Drivers are Killers View Post
    https://www.beckershospitalreview.co...50-states.html

    That is just for the hospital bed - does not include doctor fees. You go to an ordinary motel and for $100 a night you get a private room with TV and cable and microwave. At a hospital you get none of that and yet they charge you 25 times as much!!!

    As long as health insurance exists no one has any real incentive to demand lower prices and so they keep rising. Health insurance should be banned.
    If you're in a hospital for anything more than watching, you're probably paying over $10,000/night, not counting doctor fees.

    Medical care is 10 times more expensive that it would be in a free market. I could staff a converted hotel next to a hospital with a couple of nurse's aides and a nurse, and charge $200/night. Except, I'd have no customers, because insurance, government, and ignorance is keeping people in the hospital paying over 10 times as much.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Text Drivers are Killers View Post
    https://www.beckershospitalreview.co...50-states.html

    That is just for the hospital bed - does not include doctor fees. You go to an ordinary motel and for $100 a night you get a private room with TV and cable and microwave. At a hospital you get none of that and yet they charge you 25 times as much!!!

    As long as health insurance exists no one has any real incentive to demand lower prices and so they keep rising. Health insurance should be banned.
    My room had tv and a cable but only access to a microwave.
    But it also had access to the finest medical care in the world at a moment's notice.
    I couldnt even get a trash can in the motel.
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